Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37b774f3d12266ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-08-17 10:20:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 146b2f2cf49a62adae3d421fa10b223e SHA-1: b5d30926730d2a8e2faa98ffdeeda7dfac0b49fc SHA-256: 37b774f3d12266ef48c8436bf6464290cd711819804ae987a86e7970061f2278
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely exploits PDF vulnerabilities or serves as a phishing lure. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. This suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gta+5+luxury+cars+locations+offline PDF link annotation
    • http://shsuorui.com/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210626/file/16247305619420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f71818e1ba---rapuraxewimovodejup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fljrd8admoflt64vabhe1fa7f1/49355566331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cmek595k4pt6sm350jhab5d83d/70259027981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familiegravesen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68237062420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myboydfamily.com/clients/7/7f/7f513a2250c12de81a70a6735749c289/File/97214885678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/47611620120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/94147488915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-20/20210720233903319319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westboroughhigh76.com/clients/b/bc/bc4984db1d461a603911d7e4814e3e59/File/75787053173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinoboxingclub.com/clients/36032/File/17993348970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae7b7988949---beses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38gciaea6v3hlgfthbqf2daoi4/49268835727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienbao.net/uploads/files/57794075909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ced1bdf2f079a4bda851d5212d70b17/9481868596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b33cf3d1aecc2b8fb621d6d83a6fa0f/3678892722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transsnabstroy.com/userfiles/file/purevos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f129e27abd079c18ba41b53ad63917ee/93993455150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119ef8627cab---tapojonodoxagofepezelogix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a299ae44e81---41727651336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094bd0221076---xogafexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aloisiquadri.it/userfiles/files/39026134212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000102a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A5 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 3890c7b35c4c261bdc955eefb28ee2d5ead57ba7863db1fa8b9bf70ee4f543c1
font_01_sfnt_off00011bde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BDE 17160 bytes
SHA-256: d68e53c56b4bfb70d1d4fc089011845441209819b9e0249bbd2417805498105f
font_02_sfnt_off00014868.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14868 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1